Rumor: New PS3 revision coming, new copy protection along with BD-J for BD-3D

According to a well-placed industry source who wishes to remain anonymous, developers were recently notified that a new revision of the PlayStation 3 is in the testing process that will feature a new copy protection system not on the motherboard but inside the BD-ROM drive itself, similar to the Xbox 360.

Presumably this would at least prevent these newer consoles from running copied games with an additional layer of authentication. It’s likely that there will be some kind of watermark on genuine PlayStation 3 discs that the drive is looking for. All of these measures are in response to the acquisition of the PS3 root encryption key earlier this year (2011) by hacker GeoHot which allows unlicensed code to be run on the PlayStation without restriction.

I said less, not "zero". Sure, if people wanted to buy another system just to tear it apart and try to hook it up to a computer... They'd have to create drivers for the drive to be recognized by the PC, then they'd have to successfully rip the disc and then there's the possibility that the image file wouldn't be recognized when loaded from a HDD.

*EDIT* about Nintendo carts being ripped, technology back then was also simpler.

@ElementX: Even DS had very high piracy rate, almost as high as PSP. It is very easy to pirate DS carts and Wii has even more piracy than PS3. Propriety media doesn't have much effect on piracy, it never has.

Edit: Actually it took years before PS3 had pirated games on internet. Wii had them soon after it was released.

The Dreamcast had a proprietary disc called GD-Rom and it was the absolute WORST when it came to protection...so the "less piracy because burners/readers wouldn't be available for PCs" theory is flawed.

Hell if sony is releasing a new sku as the current model for the ps3, they could at least replace the hdmi 1.3 with the newer and better hdmi 1.4. It kinda limits ps3 3d games and movies on new 3dtv that have switched to hdmi 1.4 a yr or so ago, well the higher tier ones anyway.

Just put a paper, telling none techies to make sure they buy the version 1.4 hdmi and not 1.3, maybe i am the one who is wrong, a hdmi 1.3 is the same physically as a 1.4 or am i mistaken.

Piracy will always be able to happen. You'll never be able to completely get rid of it because there are so many ways and so many reasons for it.

Thing is, in order to do anything about it, they have to be sure they know what the situation is. Draconian DRM will just cause people to pirate the game more, things like what happened with BF3 could be what drives it. High prices, too, could be the issue. Or perhaps it's easier to download off the internet and get a digital version rather than going out to a game store or waiting for, say, Amazon.com to deliver a physical copy.

Some people WILL do it because they are cheap, but that doesn't mean that ALL people will do it because of it. They sometimes do it because they don't want to be forced into a contract or being told that they are already criminals when they never did anything like what they DRM is basically accusing them of.

Sadly, not many on the other side are opened minded enough to see the bigger issue is, and are instead going "YEAH, SONY! GET EM!" without caring what the issue is really about! Been the attitude since the Geohot thing became a red button issue (I know you can't convince immature, bratty fanboy kids ANYTHING. I'm just not convinced that these are just immature bratty fanboy kids that are acting like that).